Hook and eye for suspender-ends



(No Model.)

J. T. BRROW.

15100K AND BYE POR SUSPENDER ENDS.

Patented July 14, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN T. BARROV, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

HOOK AND EYE FOR SUSPENDER-ENDS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 563,731, dated July 14,1896.

Application filed October 2l, 1895. Serial No. 566,427. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN T. Bannow, of Chicago, in the State ofIllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Hooks andEyes for Suspender-Ends, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in Suspenders in which a hook isused in connection with an eye or a loop in place of the ordinarymethod, in which the loop on the end of the Suspenders passes over abutton on the waistband; and the object of my improvements is to providean open hook or pair of hooks to be attached to the suspenderends withmeans for preventing the hooks from becoming disengaged with the eyewhen the suspender is slackened, so as to relieve the strain of the hookupon the eye. It is also a further object of my improvements to providemeans for attaching the eye to the waistband for properly connecting theeye so as to support the garment at different points. l attaintheseobjects by the means illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which-Figure l is a perspective view of a pair of snspen ders provided with myimproved hookand-eye attachment. Fig. 2 is a fragment of a verticalsection, showing the hook and eye in the position which they occupy whenconnected and when under strain. Fig. 3 is a similar view showing theposition taken by the hook in. the eye when the suspender is slacltened.Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the hook and eye, the latter beingdisconnected from the means for securing it to the waistband.

In the drawings, A designates the suspenderwebbing provided with the endpiece A', attached by means of a buckle @for shortening or lengtheningthe Suspenders in the ordinary manner. The hook is comprised preferablyof a piece of wire B, bent at right angles and curved back so as to formhooks l) at each end, and provided with a cross-bar B.

C designates the eye.

C' is a piece of leather or other stiff material provided with openingsc at either end for sewing it to the waistband. The eye is attached tothis piece by means of a piece of canvas or otherv stout flexiblematerial c', looped around the part C and one side of the eye and sewedby a double row of stitches c2,

so as to join the eye and attached part together as one piece.

The suspender-end A comprises a loop of webbing connected at one endwith the buckle c.. The cross-bar B' is connected near the other end ofthe suspender-end by means of a loop a', which is passed around thecrossbar and secured Within the loop on the suspender-end by means of arow of stitches at CL2, the part B being outside of the loop for1ningthe suspender-end A'. This connection of the suspender-end with the hookallows the extreme end a3 to come down even with the bottom of the hookZ9.

It is intended that the piece C shall be at tached on the inside of thewaistband, so that the upper edge of the eye C shall come about evenwith or slightly above the top of the v waistband, said piece beingsufficiently rigid to prevent wrinkling or corrugation of the canvaspiece o and to hold the. eye iixed in the proper position to support thegarment at the different points where the hooks l) engage with the eye.The hooks ZJ are open at the top, so as to be free to engage anddisengage with the eye, but are prevented from disengaging by anyaccidental slackening of the suspender, such as is liable to occur frommovements of the body of the wearer, by means of the connection with thecross-bar attached to the webbing and the weight of the part B, thelatter being arranged relatively to the attaching-bar and free of thewebbing, so as to fall or turn out from the webbing, as shown in Fig. 3,causing the hook to turn in the eye and thereby prevent unhooking; but

" when it is desired to disengage the hook from the eye this can readilybe done by taking hold of the part B in connection with the wel bing, soas to prevent the hook turning in the eye when the suspender isslackened, and it will then disengage from the eye by means of anysufficient downward movement of the hook to allow it to pass below theeye.

It should be observed that the body of the hook is pivotally connectednear its mid length to the webbing, so as to turn freely in thedirection in which the hook is moved to cause it to engage with the eye,and when so turned the opposite parts will be extended in oppositedirections from the webbing. Owing to this relation the part oppositethe hook op- IOO crates as a counter-balanceJ so that when the strainbetween the connected hook and eye is released the opposite end of thehook-body falls in advance of the hook and prevents the latter frombeing disengaged from the eye. By this expedient, means for locking orclosing over the point of the hook within the eye may be entirelydispensed with and yet accidental unhooking is obviated7 a short hooknot extending far through the eye so as to be easily connected anddisconnected may be employed7 and a more finished and lcss conspicuousconnection of the Suspenders with the waistband is provided than isafforded by means of buttons.

That I claim isl. In a hook-and-eye attachment for garment-suspenders,the combination with the suspender-webbing of a hook-body having a shortopen hook at one end and pivotally conopposite the hook-body operatin gas a counterbalance to the hook to prevent unhooking when the strainbetween the hook and eye is released as speciiied.

2. A hool;andeye attachment for suspender-ends comprising a pair ofhook-bodies bent from a single piece of wire B and having hooks b b, across-bar attached to said hooi;- bodies about their mid-length forpivotally conn ectin g them with the suspendenwebbin g, so that the partopposite the hooks will counterbalance the hooks, and an eye adapted toengage with the hooks and connected with a rigid piece C' for attachingthe eye to the waistband as specified. Y

3. An eye attachment for suspender-ends comprising an elongated eye C astiff leathern piece C' provided with holes c at either end and awebbing c encircling the piece C and one side of the eye and secured asspecifici` Chicago, October l2, 1895.

JOHN T. BARROW. lVitnesscs:

ANNIE M. ADAMS, ELLIS LEVY.

